sunflash-Distributed to mailing list sun/NC/north-carolina sunflash-Send requests, problems to owner-sunflash@suntri.east.sun.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash SunSoft Announces Netware Compatibility for Solaris SunFLASH Vol 64 #18 April 1994 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 64.18 SunSoft Announces Netware Compatibility for Solaris SunSoft introduced a new suite of products that establishes Solaris, the industry's leading 32-bit UNIX operating environment, as the applications server of choice for NetWare LANs. This new product suite delivers to NetWare users the key benefits of the powerful Solaris environment including access to large-scale, mission-critical applications, symmetric multiprocessing and superior scalability. This means that IS managers can leverage Solaris to extend their capablities beyond the simple file and print services provided by NetWare today, without making changes to their existing NetWare clients. (156 lines) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This announcement was made earlier today, April 5, 1994, by SunSoft in conjunction with the Solaris Developer Conference, being held in San Francisco this week. SMCC will announce pricing and availability within 90 days. SUNSOFT INTRODUCES NETWARE COMPATIBILITY FOR SOLARIS Solaris Now Premier Applications Server for NetWare LANs SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- April 5, 1994 -- SunSoft today introduced a new suite of products that establishes Solaris, the industry's leading 32-bit UNIX operating environment, as the applications server of choice for NetWare LANs. This new product suite delivers to NetWare users the key benefits of the powerful Solaris environment including access to large-scale, mission-critical applications, symmetric multiprocessing and superior scalability. This means that IS managers can leverage Solaris to extend their capablities beyond the simple file and print services provided by NetWare today, without making changes to their existing NetWare clients. The first product in the suite, IPX/SPX for Solaris, was introduced today before a crowd of more than 2,000 Solaris developers, customers and OEMs at the third annual Solaris Developer Conference being held this week in San Francisco. Other products planned for delivery later this year include NetWare-compatible server services for Solaris and NetWare compatible client services for Solaris. "IS managers are frustrated with NetWare's limitations as an applications server for large-scale, mission-critical applications," said Jim Billmaier, vice president of product marketing at SunSoft. "SunSoft is solving this problem by giving NetWare users access to the full power of Solaris and the broad set of business applications now available for it. Now they can become full-fledged citizens of the corporate network with access to information residing on larger systems located anywhere in the organization." The new products introduced today, complement a broad line of PC-integration solutions already offered by SunSoft including: PC-NFS, the industry's leading TCP/IP-based networking solution for Windows and MS-DOS environments, and the recently introduced SolarNet, the first TCP/IP networking software package that allows administrators to manage large numbers of Windows- and DOS-based PCs from a single desktop. New Product Capabilities IPX/SPX for Solaris -- Makes the robust application services of Solaris available to NetWare clients without any change to the users existing client environment. NetWare clients now get the benefits of transparent access to large-scale, mission-critical business applications running on the Solaris environment. IS managers can offer their users secure, highly available and reliable data, while enjoying the benefits of scalable, multiprocessor system support of remote systems administration and system scalability across SPARC and x86 architectures offered by the Solaris environment. NetWare Server -- Will provide NetWare users with full NetWare-compatible file and print services on Solaris without any change to the users existing NetWare desktop. System administrators will now be able to leverage the highly available data services, gain access to very large disk subsystems and take advantage of the automated administration capabilities of Solaris. NetWare Client -- Will allow users who prefer the power and flexibility of the Solaris environment on their desktops to access resources on native NetWare servers. This will enable Solaris desktop and NetWare desktop users to easily share information stored on existing NetWare servers. This technology also fulfills SunSoft's commitment to the Common Open Systems Environment (cose) initiative. Pricing and Availability IPX/SPX for Solaris, shipping in the third quarter of this year, is priced at $395 and will be available on Solaris 2.3 and future versions of Solaris for x86 and SPARC. NetWare server services for Solaris and NetWare client services for Solaris will be available by the end of the year. Prices will be available when the products ship. To date, SunSoft has shipped 1.6 million units of the Solaris environment, making it the world's leading UNIX product. At present, nearly 8,800 32-bit applications are available for the Solaris environment. SunSoft, Inc., headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., is a subsidiary of Sun Microsystems, Inc., the exclusive computer supplier to World Cup USA 1994. The company has offices in North America, Europe and Asia. SunSoft is a leading supplier of 32-bit system software solutions for SPARC and Intel 386/486- and Pentium-based computers. The products are licensed by SunSoft and distributed through major computer manufacturers and resellers worldwide. (c) 1994 Sun Microsystems, Inc. Sun, the Sun logo, Sun Microsystems, SunSoft, PC-NFS and Solaris are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. All SPARC trademarks, including the SCD Compliant logo, are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International, Inc. NetWare is a registered trademark of Novell, Inc. UNIX is a registered trademark of UNIX Systems Laboratories, a wholly owned subsidiary of Novell, Inc. Intel and Pentium are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel, Corp. 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